ABSTRACT
The article finds that a plenty of Chinese farmers hope to sell and buy rural lands freely after rural land titling, which does not accord with the current land policy and property rights law. The empirical model suggests that the individual’s view on land ownership, the situation of holding a land contract certificate, personal age, and health condition may lead to this wrong cognition.
Data availability statement
The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
Notes
1 The old version of land contract certificates were awarded to the farmers after the policy implementation of ‘Second round of land leases’ during 1997–2000. The certificate ensures that the holder has full land rights (excluding the ownership) on his/her contracted lands. Land titling remeasures the individual’s contract lands, and awards new version of land contract certificates to the farmers. Therefore, the respondents who answered ‘yes’ showed us either the old version of land contract certificates (most of the respondents), or the new version ones.